Naeli & the Secret Song
Jasbinder Bilan
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Extract
Naeli sprinted away from the house and scrambled fast up the jacaranda tree. She swiped the tears from her cheeks, but it was no good, they wouldn’t stop falling. She shoved her bare feet into any nook they could find and positioned herself between the branches. Peering through the blurry violet blossom, she strained to see what the neighbourhood ladies were doing now.
Naeli blocked her ears so she couldn’t hear their cries, telling her to come down and help with her mother’s funeral preparation. She balled her fists and shouted at the top of her voice.
‘I want you all to go away and leave. You don’t care about us anyway.’
About the book
From the author of the 2019 Costa Award-winning Asha & the Spirit Bird comes a stunning new historical adventure ...
Naeli longs to know her English father, who abandoned her when she was little.
All she has is his name – and his precious violin. Her chance comes when a ticket to England arrives mysteriously.
Leaving behind her beloved India, Naeli embarks on an adventure that will take her from the streets of Victorian London to the wilds of Northumberland to discover the truth of her musical inheritance.
- Themes of grief and identity, wrapped in a gothic musical mystery.
- Perfect for readers age 8+.
PRAISE FOR JASBINDER BILAN:
‘A light-filled, huge-hearted delight’ KATHERINE RUNDELL
‘Atmospheric, dreamy, charged with wonder and menace, loss, sorrow and delight’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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